Ugh. The story only gets worse as time goes by.

@Copper We get it. You tee up the golf ball a lot. You don't have to keep showing us!

They stink when you skin them out and they're greasy. Plus, ain't nothin' like walkin' by a dead cow carcass and watching the possums scatter out of the body cavity.

Tell them not to get too attached to it. If you read down into the article, today it's pets, then they shift to people.

@Klaus said in History is how you write it: Interesting. How many small versions of this incident go by unnoticed, I wonder? Bunches. Wiki is what it is, and I use it just like most folks, but don't take it as the gospel truth.

@NobodySock said in Bring Back The Draft: Finally, something I can agree with from you. You dimwitted ostrich. Been saying it for a very long time. Each and every 18 year old should serve minimum 2 years in the armed force of their choice. But there is no getting out of it. A law. An enforced law. I know it doesn't go well here in this forum full of college grads with daddy's spoon still stuck up their butt, but I believe our country would be so much better off by forcing high school grads to give back to this country and learn some respect and gratitude before daddy sends them off to become cynical smart people with no common sense. How was rehab?

If you look up "polymath" in the dictionary, there will be a picture of Steve Martin there. Actor Author Comedian Composer Banjo Player When (if) I grow up, I want to be Steve Martin.

Very nice. Should last a long time and be maintenance/trouble free. I've always had a fondness for Mazdas. They're just different enough from Toyotas and Hondas to make them interesting. ETA: Might wanna blur out the license plate, because I'm paranoid.

@George-K I did that and it failed. hmmm. Let me try that again. ... OK, I must have forgotten to actually click the button. [image: giphy.gif?cid=ecf05e47fezwi9vcctlxcwvcotof126irgi5rtgddg37gcsj&rid=giphy.gif&ct=g]

Deep fakes for pictures of homes for sale might come in handy.

@Jolly said in About 5%: It's different now, though. We don't have COVID wards like we did...Around here, they now put them in negative pressure rooms on the regular med floors. And it seems like we don't see the 40-something with no comorbidities dying with COVID. So, who needs to be vaccinated? Elderly folks and people with comorbidities. In young people, especially teenage guys, we may be doing more harm than good. I think we need to take a deep breath, realize COVID is endemic, look at the limitations of the vaccines and revaluate when and how often someone needs to be vaccinated . I'm happy for them to re-evaluate if they do it properly. So many of the decisions associated with this seem to be politically motivated, particularly in the US, which is really unfortunate. The last thing we need is talking heads driving health policy.

Not to mention the photovoltaic panels once they are worn out... https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/california-went-big-on-rooftop-solar-it-created-an-environmental-danger-in-the-process/ar-AAZz0vF?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=229f839521e74a04a221916fae1eae52

Certainly a rare sight. Got me wondering what it would be low to perform CPR on, say, a blue whale.

I watched it a few nights ago. I enjoyed it. Felt like an extension of the last movie or two, so probably necessary to watch those before this one. Top notch chase and fight scenes, otherwise a pretty basic story compared to other bond movies. The stairwell fight scene near the end was spectacular. I think it was about 2 minutes of a continuous (tracking) shot, which is always really fun to see in a movie. Watch it here if you want: click to show Link to video

@Mik said in "Please respond to our survey.": A good way to get me to bail. Yeah no kidding.

Nice. Very nice. Speaking of warship porn, here's a recreation of the Battle for the Bismarck. With Legos. In stop-motion. Link to video

The scandal I know of was in Rochdale - it's in Greater Manchester, but it's really a Lancashire town separate from Manchester. It was girls, rather than boys. This was a huge scandal that broke around 2011. The police and social services hadn't done due diligence, probably because they were worried about being accused of racism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochdale_child_sex_abuse_ring